Aregbesola Lands In Trouble Shortly After Anti-Tinubu Statements

faces probe over alleged N165billion embezzlement

Less than 24 hours after Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola blasted presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over political rift in Osun State, the House of Representatives began a probe of alleged N165 billion misappropriated prison funds.

Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, made this known, while presiding over the plenary on Wednesday, where members resolved that the interior minister and prisons chief, Haliru Nababa be probed.

They are being accused of misappropriating about N165 billion funds earmarked for prisons development across the country.

The House resolution came as a result of a motion of urgent public importance moved by Minority Leader of the House, Ndudi Elumelu.

“The House is disturbed that despite this Act and increase in budgetary allocations to the Nigerian Correctional Service to drive its renewed mandate, the tempo, and quality of the service have remained the same if not retrogressing.

“The House is worried that the working conditions of staff and inmates’ welfare have deteriorated notwithstanding the over N165 billion budget allocations to the service in the last two years,” Elumelu said.